Japanese health officials say that three young people have contracted dengue fever, the first such infections in the country in nearly 70 years.
The three are suspected of having contracted the disease, called denguetsu in Japanese, when they were bitten by mosquitos in Yoyogi Park in central Tokyo, officials say.
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